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That's been my experience as well, and the same applies to groups that own/maintain certain projects, like drools/RHDM. The project/technology owner/maintainer is aligned with corp based on customer size/needs, and that alignment is a function of how much the customers are paying.

If and when a large customer drops out, the entire corp and open source structures can change because the monetization changes. On the plus side, if there's a broad customer base, this is less likely to happen.
Are you suggesting everything that currently takes a file-loke object "f" instead takes "fstate" "fread" "fwrite" "fclose" "fflush"...?
Just walk away from Robinhood, if you are not happy, close the account and move the money away, this will really heart them...
My understanding is that brokerages are generally not liable for what happens on their platform so long as they ensure trades remain legal (eg margin requirements) and they don't make false promises and keep appropriate disclaimers.

On the other hand, manipulating the market seems like a good way to lose a business.
What naked shorts?

Do you have any evidence for these claims?
FTA: “Many companies have deployed steering racks that offer variable rates, changing based on speed and steering angle. Even at their quickest, though, these racks don't eliminate the need to reposition your hands for common, daily maneuvers. On top of that, most of them have been panned for making cars feel less predictable and, ultimately, less fun to drive.”
It requires $2000 in the case of Robinhood. Reeeeeaaaaallllyyyy onerous.
>It is nowhere to be seen in today's world, though.

Hatred is very difficult to confront effectively. It requires inner strength and a great capacity for love. So many people lack that and just default to mirroring that hatred back at the hater, or just try to cover it up and ignore it.

It's hard to see things when you don't want to see them.

>Once you let them out, what are you planning to do to deal with them?

If you want a "plan" then simply study the philosophy and history of Dr. King.

Here's a great place to start:

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/lov...
Probably not much, but it's a clear sign that their users should go somewhere else.
First, I believe that number comes from this article[0], which doesn't tell the whole story. Did some research and found some more info with the help of this article[1]. In Q1, Citadel paid $12,583,220.60 to fulfill orders from Robin Hood[2]. I can't put together the total percentage of their order fulfillment revenue, but this website seems to suggest 91 million[3], but if you add up the totals from[2] they don't sum to 91 million--so I can't quite determine the percentage of revenue it works out to, but it appears Citadel is their biggest order fulfillment client.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-15/robinhood...

[1] https://fortune.com/2020/07/08/robinhood-makes-millions-sell...

[2] https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/RHS%20SEC%2...

[3] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/robinhood-statistics/
Yup. And it’ll be a bunch of people that can’t afford to lose the money
Some folks on WSB may know what they're doing, but many folks are joining Robinhood and buying GME and AMC due to the hype and that they heard they can make a quick buck. When GME eventually crashes, many of them will lose a fair bit of money and blame Robinhood for the poor experience.
They didn't tell you how much of the position they closed out on. They can say "they closed their position" even if they only closed out on 1% of it.
I think the parent comment is suggesting that the very powerful people in hedge funds could use their power to create severe consequences.
>Please use strong arguments, not ad hominem.

You mean like calling people gullible and moronic?

>There's a reason why we don't wear ties in manufacturing plants.

There's a reason why we don't call everyone who wears ties gullible and moronic. There's a reason we don't condemn ties.
Why just Robinhood ? Against ALL brokerages.
It is being reported that most brokerages who already operate in private conspiracy with the big institutions and hedge funds have disallowed trading in the stock pick buys participated in by millions of traders at reddit/wallstreetbets which will likely result in additional litigation for MARKET MANIPULATION by the brokerages readily apparent 1-27-21 forward, in effect allowing big institutions and hedge funds continued access to the markets while shutting out smaller retail traders (more censorship - cancel culture), notwithstanding scores of smaller retail traders already in positions and unable to exit those positions will leave them liable to being crushed by big institutions as prices go against them.

New regulations should be enacted forbidding this type of behavior as supposedly allowed by TOS. Lots of false and misleading things which won't stand up to legal scrutiny can be written in TOS.
Can most brokers route trades directly through the market or use another market maker if something like this happens?

I assumed Citadel would actually be cleaning up market making GME with all the trading and volatility, but maybe the trades are too coordinated. What they're paying for is order flow from unsophisticated investors; they don't want to deal with hedge funds and the games they play. Maybe these trades are close enough to something a hedge fund would do, so the orders aren't worth it?
According to Reddit, several other trading services are also closing access to these stocks. It seems to be a concerted effort.
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HOW DID THEY DO BEFORE?
Me 9 months ago: Robinhood Is the New Juul
If the stock plummets 90% in minutes are they capable of allowing half their users (the amount that owns GME) to exit their positions? Probably not

Go look at past instances of Robinhood going down and the amount of people who claim they're going to take action because of lost money
Did you read the article? F1 racers only use that design of steering wheel because they have ultra tight steering ratios that allow you to lock the wheels in a direction without multiple turns of the wheel; whereas anything used by civilians will have a much less twitchy ratio that needs an actual wheel.

Note this is also why big rigs usually have an additinal rotating handle attached to their wheels, since their ratios are very loose due to their weight and thus may need to turn their wheel 10+ times.
This has happened before, and is a great litmus test for something that is either very bad or very good.
A stock is worth what people are willing to sell it for
The course sites are public right? Pay someone off upwork or mechanical turk manually scrape these sites for you.
In my broader circles, there is a massive divide in this between people with school-age children and people without, which shouldn't be a surprise I suppose.
> As far as I know, Citadel and Melvin Capital no longer are holding any short positions in Gamestop. So what do they have to gain, by your narrative, from suppressing the price?

If this is accurate then your question makes sense. Why? But how do we know this is real though? They could play games as well and I'm sure they do. Stock trading is gambling.
Counterpoint: virtually everyone who would have been buying GME yesterday based on the pump nonsense would have lost all that money. Consumer platforms can likewise be understood to have an obligation to protect their customers from scams, and to the extent they don't they can also be reasonably held liable.

Basically: there's a reason for these trading controls to exist. And I really think people here are getting ahead of their skis. Almost everyone screaming about sticking it to Melvin is, as I see it, a victim of a trading scam.

Melvin seems to have lost a lot of money, sure, but... so have all the WSB folks. Very, very few people are going to come out of this ahead (and realistically some of those are going to end up in jail).
If the argument is "well, the PR comes with free code so you should be thankful" then a PR that deletes code or whatever isn't super relevant.
Not only that one rich country, 96 other countries performed better than Brazil in the index. In top 10, there are Rwanda and Sri Lanka, neither of which can be labeled as rich countries. (Sri Lanka is an Island though).
Here is an F1 racing wheel

Unless your commute involves a closed course, how is this remotely relevant? Better yet, TFA specifically addressed this point.
I could see the case if trading for the stock was halted, they'd be liable for the inaction of continuing to allow trades on the platform.

But this is straight-up market manipulation. There's no justifiable reason to halt trading on GME except as a means of cooling the market long enough for Important People to exit their bleeding positions.

There's a big ass disclaimer that you sign saying that markets fluctuate and that Robinhood isn't liable for losses of capital.
That's right, a lot of assumptions are being made.
30ms here in Chrome and 23ms in Firefox here. But yeah, same questions -- is this over the network (or no, that's the point of a p2p connection)? What is this measuring..?
So, where are we now?
Customers use a trading platform for access to buy and sell on stock markets. If one day you prevent me from doing that but don’t tell me before I sign up when you would restrict my ability to interface with the market it seems like a interference.

Platforms are there to enable interface with market, not decide what I can and cannot buy from that markets.
Unfortunately, I think you have to start that process before you get to that point. Otherwise you'll be overworked and attempting to onboard someone on a project for the first time. That probably won't go well.
You forgot to mention Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates, George Soros, the pope, and the lizard people.

But seriously, what did the White House and SEC do?
I know it is rather sensationalized, but how far off is this kind of technology? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw "Slaughterbots" posted in 2017.

If I had to guess, I'd say that the tiny drones in this video still aren't capable of carrying the computational horsepower necessary for a lot of the activities portrayed.

But...isn't it really a matter of time?
I think the fact that Gamestop is >100% shorted suggests that there is naked short selling happening _somewhere_. Clearly there were shenanigans.

EDIT: apparently multiple lending of shares does happen and Overstock sued over this [1]

[1] https://www.courthousenews.com/overstock-com-settles-short-s...
Now Robinhood has stopped allowing purchases of those securities. While I suppose Robinhood would like to have good relations with hedge funds leading up to an IPO, they just pissed off a significant fraction of their actual customers -- and boy are they ever gonna get an earful about it.
Trade execution was locked on TD Ameritrade (and I think Interactive Brokers?) as well.
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I don't have a strong position on this steering wheel, but the arguments here just seem like bullshit.

If steering wheels went from this shape to round you could write a similar article making up similar reasons why the status quo was better.
The fingerprint is part of the TLS/SSL-specific transport, and is needed for crypto purposes. If you want to communicate in the clear and roll your own security go ahead, but compared to the media you're going to be pushing down the pipe the memory and bandwidth used up for certificate info is peanuts.
We need freedom of speech as much as we need freedom to not hear. We need community-moderation blocklists for speech.
never heard of robot sumo before this, thanks for sharing! Super cool. I wish we had more robotic competition in real life. Imagine how crazy the car or plane races could be. Unfortunately the only time I've really appreciated the power and speed of computers in a directly relatable way is with Super Smash Bros Melee TAS videos or this kind of robotic exhibition
Exchanges have breaks in place and can halt trading for certain stocks. I think it made sense to halt trading given what happened yesterday. But it's not Robinhood's job.
You can’t overrule laws with TOS’s.
(Source: I've roadtrip'd in a Model S multiple times, and daily drive a 10th gen Honda Civic).

The RHS "scroll wheel" on the steering wheel default binds to AC on (press), temp up, temp down. I wish I had buttons that bind to (in the order of importance) DEFROST, and recirculation (on Tesla also the "bio defense mode" which kinda is the proper solution to situations I would need recirculation on my Civic).

And of course the LHS one binds to volume although I've always found car volume adjustments to be... differently nonlinear from car to car, but equally annoying! My Civic being pre-facelift only had volume plus minus buttons (both on the steering wheel and on the side of the screen), yet I never felt bothered.
Not to mention any speculators who took short positions yesterday.
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I got an e-mail at 1 AM informing me I was not selected, curious which of you got accepted and what you wrote in your application! (The e-mail mentions that the 15 winners have been notified)

Congrats and good luck to those who enter the program.
But the study says exactly the opposite, that ample resources are key to innovation. Basic income would replace parental income as a backstop.
I condemn khadi for being gullible and moronic.
I don't support what Robinhood did, but to pretend that Robinhood specifically is the problem is a misdirection. The whole financial and business media has come out in favor of the poor hedge funds. The White House and SEC are "keeping an eye" on the situation: https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1354828593524826112. Discord has banned WSB and who knows what Reddit or other platforms will do soon. There are calls to halt trading the stock altogether: https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/01/27/gamestop-trading-o...
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I certainly get pulling the plug on options, but I don't understand how the volatility in $GME would lead a market maker to simply stop quoting the underlying stock altogether. If the price starts flying around you just widen your spread. If there's too much pressure on the buy side and you can't keep your position neutral, you just raise your offering price until you're not selling shares at too fast a rate anymore.
How likely is it for them to close their position when the price hit so high? That would be a huge loss. Why not wait a bit, make a few desperate phone calls and leverage their power before that?
Countless times I've seen users on Hacker News mock DeFi and crypto for recreating the same financial instruments that we already have. I hope today has shown people just how much we need to recreate these instruments (and more) in a decentralized open manner.
Legally speaking, Robinhood is a private entity with no obligations to provide users the ability to trade. Users can still sell or trade their assets out of Robinhood, they just can't open new positions with Robinhood's platform. Users are free to use another platform if they so wish.

Not saying its moral or not incredibly corrupt, but I can definitely see Robinhood having the legal equivalent of "our platform, our rules" here.
I agree that it's ridiculous, but on this:

"Even though the password policy does suggest that your password should be at least 8 characters long, other rules such as inability to special characters make the password weak not strong."

...I think it's the 12 character limit that makes it weak, rather than the inability to use special characters. Adding more characters gives more possibilities than extending the range of each character. Length and randomness make a strong password.
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> Why is this also suboptimal, or why does this not work as well? Why is the approach by qutebrowser better?

Building a browser extension will always have limitations.

For example, if you download a file, you usually don't have a way to open/delete/retry it through a keyboard command or an extension. Or moving tabs around between windows, change the order in the current window. You have to go back to using the mouse for many tasks, even with extensions.

Browsers also have a lot of minimal chrome UI which you can't get rid of with an extension. (a while ago, I did use Safari in a mode where it only had the very thin top bar, but it wasn't super practical sometimes because it was not the intended use-case)

Having qutebrowser built with the vim-like mode as first-class citizen gives more control over what can be done and how it looks.

I've been using it for a few years now and love the keyboard-shortcut centric aspect (I also use Vim) and the minimalism and customizability of the UI.
> Here is an F1 racing wheel

This is addressed in the article:

"And indeed Formula One and many other forms of on-road racing feature steering wheels that look like oversized Batarangs. The thing is, those cars offer swift steering ratios, needing as little as 180 degrees of rotation to turn from the left-most steering extent to the right. Your average street car? Try 900 degrees of rotation from full left to right. That's two and a half turns. More rotation means slower turning, yes, but it also means more precision and frankly greater safety. A razor-sharp steering rack is a great thing on the racetrack."
There was some speculation that they didn't have that capability. Brokerage firms should have the ability to restrict margin trading in particular stocks, but what if Robinhood couldn't, at least not on short notice?

There could is also the concern about new accounts trading in GME with funds that might be suspect. It's a risk you don't want to take if you don't know your customers and the bubble is ready to burst at any moment.
No, it doesn't mean that. The same share can be borrowed more than once. If A borrows a share from B, who borrowed it from C, the same share is shorted twice without naked shorting.
https://www.nyse.com/regulation/threshold-securities

This is a list of stocks that have been sold, but the seller failed to deliver those shares. AKA naked shorting.

GME has been on this list for a month now.

SEC call this "Reg SHO".
https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm
Problem is, the losses will never really be known. Shorts have an arbitrarily high loss potential, but nobody knows how high GME would have climbed without Robinhood manipulating it down.
Citadel, Point72 to Invest $2.75 Billion Into Melvin Capital Management - 3 days ago [0]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/citadel-point72-to-invest-2-75-...
That's what I'm mostly concerned about, yes. If my understanding about the initial involvement of the Reddit crowd is correct -- that it was really about "let's pump this stock up to screw hedge funds that are shorting it" -- that group is presumably okay with losing their investment. But I can't help suspect that over the last few days, that group has become outnumbered by investors who figured they could take advantage of this weird pop by buying and selling within a very short time frame, which it sounds like you're in, and possibly even by investors who want to hold the stock, not understanding that -- even without Robinhood's interference -- it's likely set up for a fall just as quick as its rise.
Not sure if this is helpful, but to give more context around their versioning and build timelines, here are all the changelogs [1] which gives you the date they were released. The timelines between 5.8, 5,9 and 5.10 were very short. A new minor release drops every week and the major releases drop a few times per year.

[1] - https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/
My friend had a reddit addiction, he cured it by getting addicted to V-Tubers instead.

Probably not the healthy move you're looking for, but maybe you can find something healthier that works for you to get addicted to instead.
> social network companies who have more than X users need to use open and decentralized protocols

The problem with this is that a corporation can claim that its protocol is open and decentralized, while in practice making it hard for others to implement. Remember how Microsoft managed to make .docx an ISO standard, even though Microsoft Word was the only application that would be able to read and write it 100%?

Also, once an open protocol is widespread, embrace–extend–extinguish is possible because the dominant player can claim that while it still supports the protocol as written, the world moves on and it needs to add some new functionality that its peers won't be able to implement in at least the short term.
I hope that Robinhood will pay the price,
It’s the same big tech problem
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Very strange, I would have expected the opposite reaction. Every time people lose money on Robinhood they blame them for not screening clients appropriately, letting them invest more than their risk tolerance, etc. This is definitely abnormal, speculative conditions (i.e. anyone who is a normal buy and hold, value, income, etc investor does not need to be entering a position on those stocks right now).

Personally, I think they should have left trading open in cash accounts, but it is completely reasonable to block purchases of high risk shares especially on margin. Same as many brokerages limit OTCs, penny stocks, F shares, etc.

If someone really wants to buy more, it only takes a few minutes to open an account with another online firm. If they hadn't allowed sales and potentially prevented someone from stopping a loss that would be a much bigger deal, but for some reason AOC specifically called this out as suspicious.
Such an ironic company name given the current situation.
1. With due respect to various useful elements of design in Microsoft's work - this booklet reads like "We design for black people! We design for LGBT people! We design for disabled people! Look at us, we're so morally and politically superior!"

2. Microsoft makes software which costs a lot of money (for most people in the world); often a lot of money. One of the main problems people with disabilities have is low income and lots of expenses.

3. Microsoft makes software which hogs resources and thus runs poorly, or not at all, on older or simpler, low-power devices. This also not very accessible. So it might have a perfect UI experience - on the computer people don't have. Admittedly, though, this is not as bad of a problem in the past few years.

4. I wonder how actually accessible MS apps and Windows actually are. Considering how they've botched a lot of their designs in recent years even for normies (Metro; Ribbons).
I suspect a lot of the "we're all going to be remote from now on" sentiment is overblown.

It seems to me more likely that there will be a few more remote friendly companies, and a very few more remote-only companies after the dust settles, but the real shift will be for most "office based" workers will be the expectation of partially working from home.

There is a big difference between "never going to an office again" and "not going in 5 days a week".
This is the correct take.

If you thought free brokerage accounts with no-fee transactions was too good to be true... you were right! There was a catch, and this is it.